Prakash Nanjappa (born 29 February 1976) is an Indian shooter who competes in the

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and

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events. He was the only Indian to win a medal in the

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, when he won bronze with a very minor difference between the second place in 10 metre air pistol event in

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. In the same event, he won the silver medal at the

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Early life

Prakash Nanjappa was born on 29 February 1976 in

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to P. N. Papanna, a international-level shooter. He started shooting in 1999, though motorbike rallies was his primary interest. In 2003, he moved to

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and worked as a software engineer till 2009, when, on his father's insistence, he quit the job and moved back to India and took up the sport again.

Career

Nanjappa won a bronze medal in the

, in the 10 metre air pistol event having scored 180.2 points in the final. In the same year, he suffered from a paralytic attack in the right side of his face, during the World Cup in

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. Following his recovery, in October 2013, Nanjappa won the silver medal in the

event in the Asian air gun championship in

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. In the

, Nanjappa won the silver medal in the

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event, having scored 198.2 points in the final. Earlier, he had topped the qualification round by scoring 580 points. Nanjappa qualified for the

2016 Rio Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ...

in Men's 50 metres Pistol event, where he finished 25th in the qualification round.

References

External links

Prakash Nanjappa profile
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